The Sun. — London, England, 1809-04-10 00:00:00

i ,~ MAILS. ARA ri.rztLt,T..l4bort,.r.Dublin, t V.'afelford. 1)01-4 Cottcributet, t Malta, z Dublin. PitiCE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWILLV O'CLOCK. Cimscts THE SUN. .r-__ 40Llk QUIS SALIUM AVOtAT? LONDON, 11011DAIY, APRIL 10, 180.). Dutch Papers to‘the 6th inst. reached town last tiht, but 'it is rather singular that the intelligence they bring from Paris only comes down to the 2, gth The Decree.for.Opening the Ports bf Holland for the Exportation. and Importation : of certain enu merateil Articles (a list of which we laid before, Our Readers on Friday), is given in the Royal 'brisk? dam Courant of the 4th instant: The accounts from Spiin are 'given in the most vague manner. The French Armies are said to have been successful in several instances, but, neither dates nor places are mentioned with any precision. PALAVOX has, it is said, been Ordered from Bayonne to Nancy; and it Is added that 'be was to pedant this journey under 'the care of a single officer. With respea to Austria, these Papers contain very littleintelligence ; the Austrian Ambassador had not left Paris on the 29th ult, and the article which mentions this circumstance, adds, that he, remained in Paris in consequence of or ders not, to quit that capital until BUONAPARTE had left it ; but whether those orders are Supposed to have proceeded from fits own, or the French bovernmenti . is not stated. Some of the private Letters, which have been receivE:d irons Holland by the same con veyance with the Papers, mention a report that the differences between France and Austria were about to be adjusted, , upon very humiliating terms to the latter, such as, that the Austrian Army was to be teduced, and the French put in possession of Trieste and Fiume. We give no credit whatever to this re , port ; if the Emperor of Austria was not determined .to meet the conflica, it was worse than folly to make a stew of resistance. We have uniformly stated that 13uotqAPARTE would only leave him the choice of open hostility or unconditional submission : the consequences of the former nay, of the latter must be, the annihilation of the Austrian. Empire. \V2 have received Liston Papers to the 25th ult. the contents. of which are very importart. The French, it appears, have 'cannily entered Portugal, and have advanced towards Oporto, and :there is strong season to.apprel'tend iltat their progress has been ficilitated by tre.4cltc.7y on the part :of the Por tuguese Comm Anders one'.of them, General FitELIE trAt4l)a.O,,DE, was, 'in conser)uence, pot to depth by the Peasanti, who . were anxious to be led against the Enemy. General. BrIiESFOUD 11113 been ap pointed Commander in Chief of the. Portuguese Troops. The French General Sout.r, whq,corm mands the . 'invading Army, Ens published ,a Procla 7 rnat;on, addressed to the People of Portugal, calling upon them to submit, and promising theta all the advantays of French proteStion. This Proclama tion has been ;reprinted at Lisbon, with Comment s 'by the Portuguese Government. ' 1 , . The Fame arrived at Falmouth on Friday last from Cadiz, which place she left on the Qtst ult. She ,krings an account that, a jun4ion has been formed between , t armies of General CU ESTA and the Duke D'ALauQUERLIUE, and t hat their united force, which was ' stationed in La Mancha, amounted too,ouu men': - Yesterday morning his MAJUSTY, Princesses Atl- Pt/STA, SOI .I RIA, anti accatnpanied by Lord ROLL, Lady TkIYNNE, Generals ' SFENcEß, GwYNNE, and 1114NNINtonAm, rode tO St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and iledtd a Serpon by Dr. COOKSON, front Vattri Epistle to the 'chap. iii. vet - . to, antl'at tcrwards returned to the Palace. The ROYAL. FAMILY ate' expeCted in town to morrow. Accounts were received on Saturday from Marti pique, of severaledays liter date than any previously anived. Prepjrtticlpi "wern carrying on with great tttivity against Puri Raurbun. On the ! sib of Fe biwiry expry,icii,.itiat eighty pieces of cannon ruldy to•opett : against the :garrison; winch, t ',,,es•tin,u,./,111, cu i... 1.1 not hold out beyond the end uE thz.. , firat ;yea: in - Match.' Sir 4i,Lq. - .45; PULTENEY retires from office in con said, of the ref,ignation of - his Royal Inor tle n. ft Duke of YilliE:: Sir .lAmeS has an. isrnpli: fortune, t;141 wui never amhitionS.Orpidce. He i s ,r, ort ly, , t io ,i 4 u:111 , 1 to the Houso.uf Peers, with the Col/ of Lore! ti .We are happy to. find that Sir JAMES ia . able succeskor,. as Secre tary at 'Nat, in tlic Right Hon. Clikit ! Efi ‘ LN 06, who ~by'lr. STU:iOES BOcRNE as. Pay . rnaLtef at the Forces,- an appointment that will afford equal.sathfncliorT. Who is to replace Mr. S. BOURNE, as a 1,..41 . 41 'of the Ti - easury i ldoeb• apt appear to be as yet uv ta ttrneu.upon. • •• . • • • • - „ A t i t ;ther American Ves3el, the Hear,,!//, IHNKINS, baS iitokea f the Embargo Law, and on . I .rhunday ar- T l vr :l tt Liverpool froth Savannah, , She sailed .early in MarOl4, ‘ ' hear, at the time of her depar inre,, the, tate of the Non-Impoitation and Embargo was not known at Savannah. KAVAL NEWS. PLYNIOUTI-1, APRIL 8.--Arrived the Danish Brig rVePtumis,. r.:::r.vrs Master, from Nantz, .laden -witli'salt, bound to Norway f captured by the Indefa tigable Frigate, Capt. Bopp : the Master of the Nep :tunus states, that several Danish Vessela 'have lately escaped from the French ports in ballast, in •citise quence of a' report having prevailed that hostilities were likely to cease between this Country and Den.. mark.. The Neptunus brotight . over, the Captain of a British West Indianian,• who made his escape on board that vessel, in the hope of falling in with gorne• British Cruizer, having for some time been a pri soner in France, • ArriveLl the Aurora, WETHERALL, from Cork, laden, with provision 9; for this port and Portsmouth; and the COMMEree, CREWS, from London. Put back the Swallow Sloop of War, Capt. MIL• NEH. Sailed the Orestes S l oop of War to the Westward, .and tho Encouriter Gun-brig on a cruize, Put in here by contrary winds the following con voys, viz. the Sprightly Cutter, Lieut. GORDON, with the' convoy which sailed from betide on the Gth instant; and the Nymphe Frigate, Honourable Capt. PERCY, with a convoy from Portugal, last from Ireland. Arrived the Swedish Ship iludace, SODFIRSTRUM, from 8t Übe's, 'laden with salt. for Gottenburgh; sailed in company with nine sail, laden with salt, bound to Ihe latter place, all of which are arrived here : they touched at Cork, and sailed.thqnce with a large Fleet, under convoy of the Goshawk Sloop of War; wlsich Ship, with the greater part of the convoy, arc arrived here. Arrived the Fame Transport, Cliptain HARLAND, from Malta, bound to Portsmouth, last from Ire hind ; several Transports from Liibon, with women and children. Also the Ship Flora; of . t.ondon, HARDY, Master, laden with sugar, rum, coffee, and Cotton wool, from Demerara, bound to London — left the former place on the .1t1) ult. under convoy of the Galatea Frigate ; the Ship, Margaret, of Dartmouth, GARDNER, Master, from Alicant and Gibraltar, last from Cork, laden With brandy and Cork, bound to London—sailed from. Cork under convoy of 4clive Frigate. The French Schooner • Hartheuse, laden - %ith eoffee and sugar; from Mar.= tinique, bound to-Bourdeaux, captured by the Druid Friate, , • FALuotiTtr, Aram 7.—Arrived the Dispatch Packet, COI. HAttitlS, with Mails fram LiNbon, 13 days pasage. Letters froM thence brought by her. state, that 8000 French troops bad advanced to Braga, and were ecp . 4led to 'enter Oporto in 'a feu', days.. At Chaves the Pottuguest troops had mutinied and murdered their General and three other Officers, whom they ^suspeted of treachery. A French force had advanced to that place, but had been' repulsed. At Lisbon the British troops, 15,000, under thecom. mind of General,CnaDocx, were encamped in titO of the City; the guns had been remounted on the Forts, ' and every 'preparation made for the'. defence of that place against the Enemy.— The Brigade Of 'General Fitt.t., which sailed from Cork on the 27th ult. would probably .reach the Tagus.about.the 3d inst. The Packet left at Lisbon His Majesty's Ships" Ganges, Semiramis, Anaton, Asgard, intelligent, and.. Nile. Yesterday arrived the Friend, kfuntacu, from Liverpool,, to wait convoy for Malta and Acorn, SMITH, from London, Passed up Channel this evening the Minerva, ALEXANDER, (torn Surinam, bona to London, all well. • Sailed His .Majesty'a Ship Alagicienne, of 38 guns, Capt. CURTIS, with a Fleet of Transports, having on: hoard the 16th' Light Dragoons* (640 men), supposed for Lisbon ; Ship Ciescent,- for Hayti ; Brig Teresd, for 'Rio Janeiro.; Schooner Sir C. CG1104; and, Dolphin, f6r The Marlborough Packet, with Mails for Lisbon, and IVoctou Packet, with for Rio Janeiro, will 1;i1 to-morrow. Arrived this evening the Ship Fame, COURTNEY, from Cadiz, wnich she left th© 21st March, at which time CuesTA's head-quarters were at Manze tunas, in La Mancha. The Catalonian Army, com manded by Acnoctoacive, had joined CoEsTA's Army at Tarragona ; their force was 50,000 strong, and very sanguine of the ultimate issue. Sir,..rdnx Ducx.wowns sailed from Cadiz on the 17th March, for the West Indies. The Ville de Paris left it on the 21 st March, for the Mediterra nean. COWES, Atli IL cf . ,:—Lat evening arrived hero (rom Spithead a large Fleet of l'fansports, under convoy of a Frigate, all bound for Lisbon, having on board troops, horbes, tind forage: unfortniiately the wind is come round to the Westward, which has caused the whole of thein to anchor in our load, 4nd according to appearances are likely to , retm.:n here for $0n.19 tints ,, particularly as the wind bas blown from . the East for a long time past. rORTSMOtiTiI, 47 RIL 8.- 7 Arrived His Majesty's Ship Prevoyanti; frorn the Mediterranean ; also his Majesty's Ships Coquette, Alphea,. and Ant, from a cruize ; his Majesty's Ship Alert, from Plymouth ; and the Taunton Castle East Indianian, front the • Downs.' Sailed his Majesty's Ship FrederiLksieen for tis bon, with a convoy of about an hundred Sail of Transports for Lisbon; also the Muria, Hu NTLEY, D114C07/16e ; COLLINDER ; Economy, BURSON ; and . Dolphin, AtAtauttg, fur Oporto; Belle, BETTS ; nd Providence, WALKER, for Lisbon. DAL, MARCH g.—Came down front the Rivet the Davicl Shaw, SCOTT, for Jamaica, and Henrietta, PATTERSON, for Quebec; and remain in the Dowhs with His Majesty's Ships as per last. General Sir ARTHUR WELLEiLEY, accompanied by Brigadier-General STEWART, the Hon. EDWARD PAGET, Major Cow; CAMPBELL, and several other Officers, left . town between three and four o'clock on Saturday morning, for Portsmouth. ,Extra,et of a Letter from Liverpool, dated April 8, to Messrs. BENNETr and WkijTE :—" In reply to your letter, 1 have made every inquiry respecting the Dido; and learn, that she sailed from Savannah on the Ist of March, at which time no particular in formation had been received there respelling the Embargo of any later date than what was received by the• last packet, as they had no communication with the shore for some days previous to their sailing." In addition to SHRAPNELL'S Shells • and Cow ottsvies Rockets, another' new, and by every ae; count, more destruaive engine for the demolition of Ships, wai lately presented to the Ordnance Board by, Capt. OUSELEY, of the Foreign Depot; On Saturday last this thunder and lightning ma chine was exhibited at Woolwich to a vast number of General 'Officers, Officers of Artillery; and Engi neers. The experiments 'were made on a flag-staff, rigged'out by several ropes; and fepresenting a mast and rigging. On the first trial the mast and rigging fell to the ground, with an 'instant Crash, inVolved'th flames. The second trial was not so perfe&, owing CO some irregularity in disposing the materials. The fire on the third trial clung' to the mast and rigging, and burnt with. the same astonishing fury as the Arst.t 7 . The other trialsoWere equally successful, in showing the etle4 of the model of this engine, which is no larger than a couple of pint decanters_ united.' Capt. OusELBY was on the ground, and assistedtin the ma nagement of it. ' , ~HYDE Pio tc.This promenade:of beauty, lamina, anal eleganee, was yesterday numerously attended; and displayed every variety of costume, from tile. furred preservative against the chilling blast, to the. light and'airy habit suited to the gentle zephyrs of a. genial spring. The day, although somewhat lour ing, was favourable, and the walk from Hyde-Park... Corner to Kensington Ct t rdo94 was crowded, until six o'clock. The ride was graced with some of the most distinguished charaeiers in the country. The Duke of YORK rode through the Park about half past ilk° o'clock. The tide of popular preju dice appears to be taking a turn : when his Royal Highness was, paSiing ,through the Piccadilly gate; the numerous spe6tators pulled off their hats on its being intithated to them who he was.' TheX4rl of Citat,lSl.E and Sit CLIARLES Ii3ONBURY Veit: among the pedestrians in this promenade. once powerful army of 1-10 LEAR was,: at the date of the last accounts from India, re-, duced to.between five and six thousand men, chiefly infantry. ' peace which the Company has im posed on the Peninsula, and the poverty of this Chief, are the principal- causes of this change ; but there are others, r originating from hib, own tnisrita nagcnaer and extortion— We. learn, by a letter from Broach, that he lately.seited from his Oflicers the greateit 'paitof . the plunder which they had.ac quired in his.service, in consequence of which most of them have left him, and carried with them his best troops: . His relation,' CABURE Row; inn placed himself at the headOf a formidable rebellion against him; and was, 'at the date)of the last accounts, paring,' on the borders of the desert, an expeditioo, against some of the must, valnerable parts of !GAR'S torritories: It appears that the late rebellion in the, NiZAM'S territories was of.a 'much more serious nature than has been. represented : it originated in .the defedion of RAJA MAHAPHT,. Ail (Miter of high rank at Hy 7 drabad, ‘s,ho conceiving' offence at the proinotion of seine, persons in opposition to his interest; withdrew frOm the NIZAM'S service, having previously seduced about t °Awn of the troops. With this force• he rook a Strong position on the batiks of the 13renit, :and.he surprised and made prisoners a body of troops which had been seUt from-Hydrabad—;amongst• the 'num ber was a Captain . GohnOsl; yho, it is said, after suffering the greatestiudignities, .was put. to a. cruel death. -A second-expedition, was attended with bet-' ter success. Thi# insurgents ‘vvere routed, . and their 'Chief is supposed to have fallen in the anion. Dispatches balk been received by GovernMent from the British resilient at Bussorab. - The French General 6ARDANNV, as ,we intimated, some time ago, applied fir permission to establish a. Tench gar rison on an island of theTersian Gulf. The inter val of six months was.allowed w his Persian Majes ty to prepare the tribtnarychieftains on the Gulf, and to return a determinate answer. It does not appear that this proposition has been rceeived satis factorily by the depeudent' Satraps. 'rite Isle of Ormus is the'situation proposed. hy tire French: Ge neral, and it has been seletled with great judgment. Tins Island is at the inlet of the Persian Golf Wher.e Cie admission of a ILitish fleet-can be most advan tageonsly resisted.. Combroon, a considerable seaport of. Persia, in the province olFarsistan, is seirtFd in a bay only three leagues from the island of Draws. 'From;this,place the French. have endeavoured to obstrua.ourcom munication. with the Persian .Gulf but by the vigi rance of our Indian Government their designs have been defeated and the : intercoucso , 11311 ,, C911Linut-d without the least interruption. LISBON MAIL. 1.13110 K, MARGIi 23.—A Courier has arrived v.itt intelligence from Braga, that upon the approach Of the French vanguard, the armed inhabitants of that city waited in great numbers upon the Portuguese• General, B. Freere d'Andrade, offering to advance and meet the French force; he refused them, 'al leging it would be -imprudent - and madness to at tack them in the passes ; that he bad provided every thing, and would give them battle. The great num ber of people from the country who hourly, joined the citizens from all parts, and the rapid advance of the French, caused the 'peasantry to be exceedingly,: clamorous, nay ferocious; the General refuSed am munition to those who had fire-arms. At this crisis it was discovered the Portuguese troops were without ammunition, which caused so great . a ferment among the multitude of pikernen,- that they attack ed the General and guards. A desperate confliEt • ensued, when the ,peasantry forced.the house, and instantly killed the General and his Aide-de -Camp, literally cutting them to pieces. One of the Secreta ries, who survived a short time after receiving seve ral stabs, called for mercy, and intreated permission to make a full disclosure, and pointed out the places .. where the ammunition was secreted acid buried, to gether with two papers, which .fully proved that the_ General had agreed with the French Commander to admit 30,000 troops, in three divisious, itvo Portugal. The terins, tke, were fully proved ; in consequence. of which the Marquis Lola aasfs-three other Noble. men, Commanders of the forces, were seiud,atl4 sent piisoners to Lisbon . . The star, Stc. of the neral was imbrued in his blood, as a mark of tri-, uniph ever perfidy. In consequence of this disco very,- the rage of theipeople was_ unrestrainable7 . they sallied to Meet the French, and a hasty and terrs rible conflitt ensued; the . Portuguese completely • destroyed the first advance of boa French cavalry; with the second, division they equally succeeded, and 500 and upwards of horses arc captured and setlt to 'Oporto.. Among the prisoners taken are limn. hers who were part of Junot's 'army. This spirited . condaa of the peasantry of Braga has caused uni versal joy, and we hope will be produ&ive of similar emulation. 'lasaoN, 24. 7 --About six o'clock this morning, when the packet had .been under weigh, more than an hour, Captain Harris received aid pr'" der from the Ainbasiador nof to sail till .the arriVal of the post from Oporto. I have seen several letter* from Oporto of the 2 1 St instant, which fully tnnfirtu what I Wrote to you yesterday, rem) . otirtiltiii) , der of the Portuguese General at Braga. They qYr, that'Such Ofthe Portuguese troops as marched against the French, were furnished with. balls ,too for their gutis, arid the discevery was not Made till they came to adion, and . that ;the movetneuts, r these , troops were so diretied, as,to give the enen* every possible advantage:- h be recolleae4 i,q, Englan4,. that General it Arthur. Welles)Y; oar his examination, gave :some , account of Genert Bernarclitie's condutt during the time he (Sfr Arthul: *ilifp:tha! country. Some letters say,.lll3(Pcililta, Baron Eveden; in ihe English service, Who succeed' ed liernardine, hai been defeated, aud_has retretpF4 to Oporto. Others say, that he 'has g, a r -in -I, d , derahle adVatitage nee r 'iti`e cj " e , fallen back to a .better isosirt) 1111 a ll 'ec" . a daa that tit~ enemy is within t agree, however, o h i o o we go , and that thv city is a l l 114 . 6 ) 611 :-- . The gener a l o ji n i t i tt here, is, that the 'French „Itard " 01 i'tniicient - fdree in that quarter, to make OD . Oporto has been very strongly fortified, -and all tn e ' r inhabitants' that 'were:' able, to 'march' have 'arme4 , the elves in some w;ty' or- nthcr, zitvi 4i!vc g 9! out to tneet'them. On the Imlr instant an engage ment took place in I.iatito Atarejietween one hatta 'tun of ,the ine iegln t "Of, three companiesof the.vnliinteers of Chaves; the rititnent of mithia, of Villa 'Reef,: and the 'French: Otte - frtieps ed with the utmost gallantry, and the' enemy's loss was very severe., People who witnessed the aoliuh state, that the' FrencFvemployeti from .ten to twelve • waggons to carry off their Wpittidt',d: A ' great new , ber of le tters from Oliorto agree di stating, thartl4. French: haye beetr defeated po t,hc road ot, .13raga;%! , One lowi 1 0 1 gl passagelln, of : t 2 .1 1 9 h t a l . i v t e j n u s s t atlti; contains t he ) f v ti l i t; that at ten o'clock this morning, an express from Baron Eben with the pleasing intelligenee that , yesterday, at four o'clock in' the afternooni,:4 second . attack. was niade by the corps, under his coin! : mand the. result of whi c h was; that . the French wei l fififratet! ,with great loss , , and 500 cavalry were taktb prisoners and their beites. - It appears trottl an Extraordinary Gazett e , p u bli s h e d i n S ev ille en the, tst instant, that the division of Spani'sh troops commanded by the Duke of Albuquerque was tacked oft the2Ad ult.. in the Fosition of Conavig l . l, by a French : force of 11,ono toot, and anon horse , which attack wag made with the enemy's usual in ) " petuosity,. but 'completely' failed, O w in g t o the un common-in trepiditydisplayed by th e Spanish troop s, that the French were repulsed, and defeated with the loss of upward s o f 400 M e n. Field Marshal Beresford issued generkorsiers:— tee ttis Risy,kttigtiness the Prince Regent of P i: f l y - m ai , tat gractou`sly been, pleased to entrust to r Berestiod the command' in chief of his Armies thinks it rig . „. on assuming the - said - cOrnmatid, to states:id oleclare 0I" comrades in arms his sentiments on this eecssion• t he " The Field Marshal and COmmander in Chief, during tune he served rin - the army which wag sent loy his Brit:tet; Majesty to support the admirable 4nti prodigious Mhos tt.icle, by the Portuguese tUrecover their liberty and inde.peiaY,,i. the folloi,ving so unjustly attacked, had no opportunity or bc" lnilig t?on inately acquainted with the inilitgy characlet of this 0. 1 ‘ . O l. and although lie thinks he has given the most certain pT,L )1 ) ,.., the favourable idea he had formed or that characierhY 3 "' the Pcittugueseatiny ing.the akove command, yet he wishes a mt O u rs to in a still more decisive manner g ave l ' the command in 4 1 '; any mbar officer so thoroui,ty convinced of the innate tr!l_ll._ toy talents and disposition of t I) o l.tuguei.!, who waiit,sfl; thing but some skill and unitormity of plan, in the eal7-; could not fossiid y been eaninleo,„, of Warlike energies, to prove th at they have t h va li.! been, it - not the. bist sot ieri, at least. eq oat to Hic mo st and most intrepid- troops'in - Eitrope. ll (The Field-Iwo that then addressed the l'ortuguese , in language cu l ", t he to - animate their exertions, snit to induce the ollie.ers Of . 0 army to enforce strict discipline , atiit subordinatiotr 'lll,!at troops* under his Coital - land.. 1 is dated Hcai - eiug t° Lisbon, Match 13.) , 014 TIIK-LISBON GAZETTE, PRO.-CLANIATiON OF MARSHAL SOULT TO THE PoRTUGOESS \VIVI • " In consequelicebf the tuernorat)le s uCctSSes " twined by ifie brbir TiLi`jebil the. Ern " and King my august S..)vereigil; I again aPPIvPIA 'he